By Gökalp Erbaş “If the opposition is suppressed and intimidated through police methods, and PAS and its allies secure high vote shares in the elections, an inevitable outcome will be approaching. In this scenario, Russia will eventually be provoked from this front.” I concluded my Moldova analysis in July with these lines, and now, three months later, Moldova seems closer ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The Malaysian CVE experience has attracted regional and global attention both as a pioneering legislation and because of its complex security, political, and religious dynamics. Malaysia has utilized a multidimensional toolkit of hard and soft power responses from the Malayan Emergency insurgency during the 20th century up to the current threat from transnational Islamist networks and ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Author Shortly after announcing its recognition of Palestine as a state, Britain deployed former Prime Minister Tony Blair to thwart Palestine’s self-determination in line with US President Trump’s so-called ‘Peace Deal’. This move once again exposed the historical hypocrisy and colonialist mentality of Washington, London and, essentially, the West. Tony Blair is now positioned ...

The phrases in the title of this article belong to Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. The threat of a global war isn’t just on Vučić’s mind. But on everyone who’s been following world affairs even a little. To better understand Vučić’s remarks, it’s worth recalling the developments that have recently taken place in global fault lines:  Yes, all these developments point ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer While nearly 110 million people worldwide remain undernourished, and more than 30% of all food produced is lost or wasted, the irony of food deficiency as well as over-consumption in ASEAN is both an ethical and a strategic issue. Not only is food loss a terms-of-art contradiction of fundamental equity—it’s also a silent but powerful engine ...

The United States’ government is threatening the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. 7 US warships including 4000 marines are currently facing the Venezuelan coast, and the US navy already attacked some fisher boats, which the Trump administration claimed were transporting illegal drugs. We spoke about these threats and their purpose with Roy Daza, member of the Venezuelan National Assembly. Daza is ...

In Jerusalem today, archaeology has been weaponized. What should be the impartial study of the past has been turned into a tool of identity politics, land grabs, and sovereignty claims. Cultural heritage is not only being destroyed—it is being rewritten. And nowhere is this clearer than in the battle over Jerusalem, where history itself has become the front line of ...

The main topic on Türkiye’s agenda last week was President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s trip to New York to attend the 80th United Nations General Assembly and the meetings he held on that occasion. The most prominent item in Erdoğan’s New York program was his meeting with United States President Donald Trump at the White House and, in that context, the ...

With the Red Storm Bravo exercise, the German armed forces, Bundeswehr, are conducting a war exercise for the first time not only in the port, but also on a large scale in several districts of the northern German metropolis of Hamburg. The maneuver scenario involves NATO “troops arriving at the Port of Hamburg with their equipment and weapons systems and ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer As ASEAN countries race along their pursuit of cleaner, diversified energy systems, biofuels are a politically appealing, domestically sourced answer to rampant fossil fuel prices and greenhouse gas emissions. From Indonesia’s massive palm oil plantations to Thailand’s cassava fields that churn out ethanol, the region is blessed with biomass resources theoretically suitable for conversion into renewable ...

I would like to offer some guidelines that will contribute to understanding Trump’s war against Venezuela and its insertion into regional and global dynamics. I believe this situation must be viewed from two dimensions: the international and the domestic for the United States. Firstly, I think it’s necessary to say that in today’s world, no event is isolated from another. ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Few problems were as nakedly exposed as that of how Malaysia managed labor migration, the tension between political vulnerability and economic necessity. Malaysian economic hegemony for decades driven by, foreign migrant workers in the tens of millions–no less a proportion arriving on its shores illegally–have toiled all-encompassing in an attempt to drive its growth. Even in ...